unnerved - Story 158112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as Coach Miller called her name. “Sarah, we're moving you to forward.” Sarah, a center her whole basketball career, felt a coldness bloom in her chest. For years she’d been in the heart of the play, the orchestrator. Now she felt a shift, a disconnect.

She found herself staring at the forward, Bethany, watching her drive to the basket with a brutal, confident grace. Bethany had been playing forward for years. Sarah's hands, usually steady and decisive, felt clumsy and awkward as she dribbled the ball.

The court seemed vast, echoing with the squeak of sneakers and the sharp commands of the coach. She glanced at the bench, seeing the knowing looks of her teammates. Had she been replaced?

Emotion: unnerved

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.36 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.55

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion unnerved. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 unnerved stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the unnerved emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the unnerved vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😰`	0.302
`😣`	0.282
`будто`	0.265
`😖`	0.265
`ness`	0.257

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.585
`la`	-0.495
`a`	-0.403
`happy`	-0.289
`ecstatic`	-0.284